So much for the “education and access” argument
Posted on September 4, 2006
You hear anti-abstinence education zealots scream all the time that kids need a comprehensive set of courses from K-12 on everything from AIDS to “fisting”. All that is necessary to avoid teen pregnancy and dripping diseases is “education and access.” Turns out that even kids who’ve gotten the “education” and obviously have “access” (and who doesn’t anyway, anyone can walk into a local clininc and grab a handful of no-frills Planned Parenthood, keep-the-abortions-rolling-in “special” rubbers from a candy dish). This study was conducted in “three large US cities” — read: school systems who likely preach a very liberal approach to sex-ed, we’re not talking about the rural south and all those ignoramuses who think it is not the state’s responsibility to teach kids about “auto-erotica” or the “New Gay Teenager.”
From Reuters: Teens often skip condoms, regardless of partner:
Many teenagers and young adults fail to use condoms consistently, regardless of whether they have sex with a serious or a “casual” partner, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that among more than 1,300 15- to 21-year-olds, those with casual sex partners had unprotected sex just as often as those in serious relationships — about 20 times over the previous three months, on average.
Those who had casual sex were more likely to use condoms at least some of the time, the study found. But because they had sex more often, they ended up having unprotected intercourse just as frequently as their peers in steady relationships.
The findings point up two different problems, according to the researchers.
“Unfortunately, this reveals that teens may overestimate the safety of using condoms most of the time with a casual partner and underestimate the risk of unprotected sex with a serious partner,” lead study author Dr. Celia Lescano said in a statement.
Yes, and the “myths” and “misinformation” are being peddled in abstinence education programs. Last time I checked, absitinence is the only way to guarantee the avoidance of consequences of illicit sex — but we dare not reveal such things to our children because such information is just a veiled attempt to impose a theocracy.
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These are the teens whose parents think it was cute and cool for Clinton to boink his very young intern in the oval office to keep his mind off running the most powerful country in the world.
These are the same parents that believe hollywood celebs are political strategist and are better equiped to deal with international and economic policies.
How your child behaves is the parents responsibilty…get involved with their schools, know their friends and their friends parents, teach and practice ethics and moral character, be the man you would like your ‘child’ to be and there should only be proud moments.
Expalin that popular ‘Timmy’ and ‘Susie’ (at school) behave the way they do because their parents are morally deficient and support the ACLU; and that the ACLU say it is ‘ok’ to molest children…etc.
The study found that minors were prone to poor judgment. That is common sense. If I remember correctly Sweden has the comprehensive K-12 sex education and their murder by abortion rate is comparative to ours. Washington, D.C. opted out of the abstinence only program and their abortion rate is so high that a child has more chance of being killed by his or her mother than of being born.
Texas has tried “abstinence-only” and guess what? Texas teens are still just as sexually active as the rest of the nation.
Right! It doesn’t matter what kids are taught, they will have sex no matter what! (Hmm, that wasn’t my teenage experience — was it yours?) So teaching abstinence is the same thing as teaching “how to have sex”! (Really? I think your stats are a bit selectively chosen, if you bothered to research the subject at all). There is no “try”. There is only “do” — but to kids it’s all the same, right? I could go on lampooning the obvious logical fallacies of your position, but it’s just too easy. Try harder next time, camanintx.
camanintx,
I doubt your claim is true as there is differences between communities.
Texas is actually rated pretty high in teen births but that may be because of their higher proportion of Hispanics, A more pro life outlook than other states, or other factors.
Teen pregnancies are declining. The hypothesis is it is because of higher use of condoms because of fear of HIV/Aids and that more teens are practicing abstinence.
http://ww2.aegis.com/news/ap/2005/AP050730.html